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"Mr President, I should firstly like to thank the Commissioner for his answer. With a single exception, we are all agreed that Natura 2000 is incredibly important, and we are also all agreed that the money must be obtained. I do not know if everyone is aware of how much money is involved – at least EUR 6 billion per year. This means that at least EUR 3 billion must be obtained from Natura 2000. This could not ever possibly be obtained using just one fund. Irrespective of ways and means, we must have this project integrated into the other funds, and that is something on which we agree. We shall support the Commission in this matter, and I must also say that the green movements, Bird Life etc are in favour of our having the funding of Natura 2000 integrated. The problem is that I could not glean from the Commissioner’s answer how he is to ensure that this will in actual fact happen. Mr Florenz provided an engaging description of the conflicts that will arise. If it has not been ensured that the money is earmarked and tied, nothing will come of matters. Purely for the sake of funding, we therefore need a clearer answer from the Commission than we have received so far.
Allow me also to say, however, that it is not only an issue of obtaining enough money. It is also an issue of getting the whole of our rural districts policy in tune with the natural environment, so that agriculture is carried on, and development pursued, in these areas in ways that respect the vulnerable natural environment instead of, as now, in ways that include driving large road systems through vulnerable areas. I have seen how, in Poland, exemptions are granted for brutal pannage in an extremely vulnerable and very rich, but therefore fragile, natural environment. We therefore need also to take account of the way in which we develop rural districts and to ensure that Natura 2000 is incorporated and that there is enough money. If the money cannot be found within the existing funds mentioned, allow me to point out that we have just obtained a majority in the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety in favour also of beginning to examine the first pillar, where almost all of the EU’s money is, of course, to be found. There are such large sums allocated to direct agricultural aid that it is time we began to look at this aid."@en1
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